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Investing
Hulu Is Not Worth $1 Billion
courtesy of Time WarnerThe price point at which Hulu will sell may hit $1 billion. It is not worth that. As a matter of fact, in an extremely crowded video on demand…
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Media Digest: Reuters, WSJ, NY Times, FT
courtesy of AOL, IncYahoo! Inc.’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) profits in Asia will help balance the risk of its Tumblr buyout. (Reuters) A successful vote to split the chairman and CEO jobs at J.P.…
6:44am ET
Investing
Walmart (WMT) Earnings Show Ability to Tackle Amazon (AMZN)
courtesy Making Change at Walmart and UFCWWall Street considered almost all the news from Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s (NYSE: WMT) earings as bad. U.S. comp sales declined 1.4% in the 13-week period from Jan. 26…
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Media
Amazon Adds NBCUniversal Video to Prime Offerings
ThinkstockIn another move to boost subscriptions to its Prime Instant Video service, Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today said that it has signed a licensing agreement with the NBCUniversal division of Comcast Corp.…
1:41pm ET
Media
Google Takes a Swipe at Pandora and Apple, Launches Internet Music Service
ThinkstockIn one of the worst-kept secrets around, Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the launch of its streaming music service, Google Play Music All Access, at its I/O developers’ conference. The not-so-catchily-named…
6:39am ET
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Media Digest: Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
courtesy of NetflixData show that economic activity in Germany slowed sharply in the first quarter while France fell into recession. (Reuters) Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) starts to deliver the 787 Dreamliner again.…
6:24am ET
Media
YouTube Paid Content Will Fail
courtesy of YouTubeYouTube, the video operation of Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), will enter a field in which it has no business being. It will offer consumers paid channels of premium video content.…
6:22am ET
Investing
Stock Market in Which Bad Companies Thrive over Good Ones
One of the effects of the current record stock market levels is that companies that are poorly run and post poor results have done as well, if not better, than shares in…
6:22am ET
Investing
Media Digest: Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
courtesy of AOL, IncNissan’s fiscal fourth-quarter profit rises 46%. (Reuters) Carl Icahn and Southeastern will offer an alternative to the Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) buyout. (WSJ) ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT) earnings are hit…
6:20am ET
Investing
Tesla, Groupon, Sony Face Earnings Challenge
Courtesy of Tesla MotorsSeveral companies announced earnings recently, and each one has to withstand suspicions that their successes will be short lived. Based on what some investors can see in the numbers,…
7:03am ET
Retail
J.C. Penney Trouble Beyond Repair
courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) traded up a little after the retailer gave details about results for its latest quarter. The investors who stepped in made a…
6:51am ET
Health and Healthcare
Will Cialis and Levitra Sell Online?
ThinkstockNow that Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) has started to sell Viagra online at Viagra.com, can Cialis.com and Levitra.com be far behind? These two other drugs face the same black market trouble Viagra…
6:30am ET
Media
YouTube Promotes Audience Size, but Sales Are Wanting
courtesy of YouTubeThe Wall Street Journal reports that the management of Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) giant video site — YouTube — has started to promote its audience size. What management does not say is…
6:11am ET
Retail
J.C. Penney “Comeback” Commercial Will Not Work
courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) has decided to waste money on a television commercial that asks customers to “come back.” Why? “We heard you.” Put another way, J.C.…
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Telecom & Wireless
Global Tablet Shipments More than Double in First Quarter
courtesy of Apple Inc.Tablet makers shipped 49.2 million tablet devices in the first quarter of 2013, led by rising demand for the smaller screen devices like the iPad mini from Apple Inc.…